Salem Liberty High School - Stars Yearbook (Lower Salem, OH)

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lConnnuedj Th1s year brought on the frrst real rmportant h1ghl1ghts of our hrgh school l1fe Mr Ullman was agarn our sponsor and we had an enrollment of 31 Ruth Fowler and R1chard Stevens came out from Manetta durmg the frrst semester between the tenth and eleventh grades we lost Maxrne Lent To add to our treasury thrs year we had a bake sale 1ce cream soc1al and ch1l1 sale at school Then when Sprlng rolled around everyone looked forward to our Junror Class Play whrch was entrtled Tattletale Th1s wa.sn t the only rmportant event of our Junlor year On May 7th the Jumor and Semor Banquet was held 1n the hrgh school gym Our mothers cooked and served the Banquet After everyone had frmshed thrs dellc 1ous meal we moved on to the Macksburg Gym where we had a prom Th1S was qurte a new thrng srnce Salem had not had a prom rn qurte a few years The 12th year of our school lrfe was one of the most actrve years rn school We began the year wrth most of the same famllrar faces The most fam1l1ar face was that of Mr Ullman our advrsor for the past two years As we d1scovered tn takrng our role we had 30 members rn our class as follows Glenme Baker Ronald Gerken Ruth Fowler Marrlyn Ogle Davrd Baker Ronald Hall Betty Kehl Carol Ullman Dale Barth Gary Haas Gerald Kendall Erma Wolfert Donald Buchanan Jack Hendershot Julta Lauer Rrchard W1ll1ams Harold Broome Walter Hendershot Patsy Lauer Frank Swarn Barbara Davrs Roy Hupp Grace Martm Rrchard Stevens Opal Forshey Homer Hesson Shrrley Mrller Claretta MCKHIH Thomas Fouss Donald Myers In changrng grades we lost Walter Brooks and Don Morgenstern but durrng the year we gatned Homer Hesson who came from Dexter Crty Mr Hokman the new Math teacher was 1n charge of the Semors room Th1S year thrngs were changed some for the semors Because of so many act1v1t1es when school started we had to postpone our class play untrl early 1n the Sprrng It was entrtled Best Foot Forward As most of you wrll well remember Ih1S year brought to Salem Lrberty the best basketball team there ever was We had the frrst county champlons srnce the team rn 1945 The reason we thought so much of thrs partrcular Champ1onsh1p team was that they were all members of th1s year s graduatrng class of 1956 Not only was the team f om our class but also the head cheerleader Barbara Davrs as well To help defray the graduattng expenses thrs year we sold ch1l1 at school pop at the basketball games an chocolate mrlk at noons rn the Ag bulldtng Several from our class took the Semor Scholarshrp tests at lvlarretta on February 21st On February 29 ve took the Aptrtude tests grven us by the Marletta Employment Agency We completed our School Days by havtng Baccalaureate on May 6 and Commencement on May 18 CLASS PROPHECY Carol and I are on our tr1p to Caltforma to become models As we were travelrng along 1n our 1966 Thunderbrrd we were passlng through Indlana and bern hungry as we always are we stopped at the Palace Restaurant The owner of the restaurant greeted us at t e door He looked lrke a boy we used to 0 to school wtth As he was showmg us to our table we got to talk1ng We soon learned that he was Davrd Ba er H told us that he was marrred and domg very well wrth the restaurar' ' We frmshed eatrng and started on our way We had gone only a few mrles out ofthe state of Indrana when we ran out of gas So we got out and trred to thumb to the nearest f1ll1ng statlon We weren t stand mg there very long when a car stopped besrde us The young man was drrvlng the 66 Ford and asked us 1f we would ltke a rrde We told hrm that we ran out of gasolrne and he offered to grve us some of hrs As he fcontrnued on page 141 . . , . I I f ' . . , . . . . l ' I . . . . , . , : I . . . , . - - . , ' n . , . w 7 1 I ' I I d . X , . , E . . . , if . e . . . , .t. ' U . . . . , -